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Question· writtenPQ 63asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
63. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the options under consideration for middle income families who cannot secure sufficient mortgages in circumstances in which financial institutions will not take their rental payments into consideration on their applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38326/20]
Question· writtenPQ 62asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
62. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the eviction ban until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/20]
Question· writtenPQ 61asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
61. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures he plans to take to reduce homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38334/20]
Question· writtenPQ 60asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
60. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the extent to which affordable local authority housing is being adequately provided for the numbers currently on the local authority waiting lists in view of the difficulties being experienced by young families seeking a home; if he has been in contact with the local authorities that currently have the most serious housing waiting lists with a view to a renewed campaign to deal with the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38275/20]
Question· writtenPQ 59asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
59. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for implementing the European Commission REACH Committee’s regulation that would ban the use of lead gunshot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31221/20]
Question· writtenPQ 57asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
57. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase the number of houses built through direct build local authority construction in view of the large difference in the cost between local authority direct builds and so called turn-key purchases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38333/20]
Question· writtenPQ 56asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
56. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the upcoming affordable housing scheme; the cost of affordable to buy homes; the eligibility criteria for the homes; the scheme of allocations for cost rental homes; the system for deciding the rents on the homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38401/20]
Question· writtenPQ 55asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
55. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to ensure that public land, zoned for housing, will be developed as 100% social and affordable housing in view of the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38403/20]
Question· writtenPQ 54asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
54. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the person or body that inspects private homeless hostels to ensure support services for persons who have become homeless are provided and to ensure that standards are met in the delivery of these support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38184/20]
Question· writtenPQ 53asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
53. Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the age friendly strategy; the actions being taken to build on housing options for our ageing population; the funding that has been allocated to address policy aims of housing for the older population as part of budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38430/20]
Question· writtenPQ 52asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
52. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the taking in charge of housing estates process will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38207/20]
Question· writtenPQ 51asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
51. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan drawdowns to date in 2020 in each local authority; and the average amount drawn down in each local authority in tabular form. [38311/20]
Question· writtenPQ 50asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
50. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for delivery of the funding for the North Quays from the urban regeneration and development fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37828/20]
Question· oralPQ 49asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
49. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the extent to which allocations under the heading of the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, have been made for specific works in each local authority area; the extent to which such progress has been completed or progressed and if any are outstanding; his plans to allocate further funding in this area to meet exigencies that have arisen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38276/20]
Question· oralPQ 48asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
48. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration has been given to increasing the income threshold for applicants to qualify for inclusion on local authority housing lists. [38314/20]
Question· oralPQ 47asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
47. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the development of a site (details supplied). [37909/20]
Question· oralPQ 46asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
46. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he is taking to deal with the rise in the number of deaths of persons who were accessing homeless services or sleeping rough. [38309/20]
Question· oralPQ 45asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
45. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the retrofit works on Pearse House in Dublin 2 will commence. [38289/20]
Question· oralPQ 44asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
44. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide funding and support to Dublin City Council to build social and affordable homes on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38186/20]
Question· oralPQ 43asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
43. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding granted by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE, to day services in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38478/20]
Question· writtenPQ 42asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
42. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the urban regional development fund for Letterkenny, County Donegal. [38369/20]
Question· oralPQ 41asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
41. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will work with Dublin City Council to secure European Investment Bank finance and a serviced sites fund allocation to ensure the delivery of social and affordable homes on the Oscar Traynor Road site in Coolock, Dublin 17. [38723/20]
Question· oralPQ 40asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
40. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated to each local authority and to approved housing bodies to construct social housing for persons with disabilities; and the amount provided to each local authority for each of the past five years. [38636/20]
Question· oralPQ 39asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
39. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if residential development delivered by the Land Development Agency, LDA, will be delivered through designated activity company subsidiaries of the agency; if LDA developments may include unaffordable open market priced homes on public land; and if the compulsory purchase powers of the agency will be limited to ransom strips. [38722/20]
Question· oralPQ 38asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
38. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the terms of reference for the departmental review on shared living and co-living established following his appointment; the membership of the committee; the number of meetings that have taken place; the persons and organisations that were consulted during the course of the review; if he will report on the interim recommendations in the report as contained in a newspaper (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36465/20]
Question· oralPQ 37asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2020
37. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the social housing quarter 3 output report for 2020 will be published; and the status of the quarter 3 output. [38310/20]
Question· writtenPQ 206asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
206. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Defence the healthcare, housing, psychiatric and income supports available to retired members of the Defence Forces. [37440/20]
Question· writtenPQ 173asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
173. Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the NPWS for the past number of years has published the details of the released locations of hares on their website contrary to a press release issued by his Department on 12 November 2020; if his attention has been further drawn to the distress which the subsequent illegal hunting causes to farmers, livestock and bloodstock; if the NPWS will be instructed not to publish such details in future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37742/20]
Question· writtenPQ 172asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
172. Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures used to fast track a local authority social housing transfer for a tenant who may be in a life-threatening situation due to location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37715/20]
Question· writtenPQ 171asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
171. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the programme for Government commitment to introduce a social housing passport to allow certain categories of persons to move from one council list to another without losing their time on list. [37648/20]
Question· writtenPQ 170asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
170. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made to date with the restoration of the Ulster Canal; the discussions that have taken place to date between his Department and the shared island unit of the Department of the Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37621/20]
Question· writtenPQ 169asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
169. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of inspections of private rented accommodation carried out by Dublin City Council in 2019 and to date in 2020; the findings of those inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37573/20]
Question· writtenPQ 168asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
168. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the third-party contracts entered into by agencies under the remit of his Department for the operation of community and voluntary organisations; the number of staff employed by the third party; and the cost of the contract in 2019 and 2020. [37565/20]
Question· writtenPQ 167asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
167. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units delivered in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2020 to date. [37550/20]
Question· writtenPQ 166asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
166. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total value of the rates waiver provided to businesses in counties Cavan and Monaghan to the end of October 2020. [37549/20]
Question· writtenPQ 165asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
165. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37522/20]
Question· writtenPQ 164asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
164. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider revising the HAP limits which particularly negatively impact frontline workers on low incomes that are single (details supplied); if he has considered a more sustainable way to avoid a local authority being the agent of homelessness and in which other some authorities are permitted to award higher rates to prevent homelessness leading to huge inequality in similar areas; the steps he will take to rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37518/20]
Question· writtenPQ 163asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
163. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase the homeless HAP limit to 50% which is the current rate in Dublin to counties Kildare, Meath and Wicklow in circumstances in which there is no affordable accommodation available in the three counties within the HAP limits and families are forced into homelessness by virtue of the caps being so low and in view of the fact that the local authority similarly pays 90% of the market rent in leasing schemes that are unavailable to HAP recipients that are new entrants onto the housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37507/20]
Question· writtenPQ 162asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
162. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to detail the review into funding of local authorities that was due in 2019 and deferred to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37495/20]
Question· writtenPQ 161asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
161. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to roll out the discretion in permitting increases in HAP caps in respect of local authorities outside Dublin in circumstances in which no properties within HAP limits are available on the open market and refusals of HAP above the current limits are driving families into homelessness whereby in Dublin families are permitted to exceed caps by 50%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37502/20]
Question· writtenPQ 160asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
160. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional funding that has been proposed to assist local authorities manage finances shortfalls in a post-Covid-19 environment and for the fiscal year 2021; when measures will be advised to local authorities; if consideration has been given to the current problems with local authority funding disadvantaging some local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37501/20]
Question· writtenPQ 159asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 November 2020
159. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the investigation carried out by Meath County Council into the rezoning of lands at Liscarton, Navan, County Meath in July 2017 and the granting of planning permission on the land in June 2018 has not been carried out transparently (details supplied). [37482/20]
Question· writtenPQ 80asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 November 2020
80. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant purchase scheme applications received by Kerry County Council since the launch of the new scheme in January 2016; the number disallowed due to the fact they could not meet the income threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37329/20]
Question· writtenPQ 79asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 November 2020
79. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that councils that are not able to meet the deadline for home acquisition and renovation by the end of 2020 have the deadline extended due to the delays in the programme due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37316/20]
Question· writtenPQ 78asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 November 2020
78. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policy with respect to the provision of mortgage protection for Rebuilding Ireland home loan applicants; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some successful loan applicants cannot secure mortgage protection due to illness or disability issues; and the mechanism there is for applicants to appeal a decision on the designated mortgage protection policy in which they believe the medical or disability grounds for that refusal are not valid. [37218/20]
Question· writtenPQ 77asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 November 2020
77. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether Brexit will have a positive impact on any policy area or sector under the remit of his Department; and if the details of same will be provided. [37181/20]
Question· writtenPQ 76asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 November 2020
76. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37299/20]
Question· writtenPQ 768asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 November 2020
768. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE in the CHO 2 community care area has made a decision not to provide further occupational therapy reports in support of applications for housing grants such as mobility aids grants and housing adaption grants for persons with a disability to Galway county and city councils in view of the extra cost burden this will put on vulnerable persons; his plans to issue an instruction to reverse this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36645/20]
Question· writtenPQ 634asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 November 2020
634. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason funding to youth services is allocated based on social housing need but does not incorporate HAP; his plans to reform same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37033/20]
Question· writtenPQ 408asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 November 2020
408. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if private emergency accommodation providers are to be included in the quality standards framework and inspection regime developed by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive; and the level of inspection of voluntary sector emergency accommodation that has taken place since the framework was introduced. [37097/20]